1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 273 



Coniopholis proxima, n. spec, 

 Plate XLIII., fig. 26. 



A very close ally of the preceding species, and differing mainly 

 by the more finely punctured prothorax and elytra and the finer 

 white scales ; the shape of the genital armature is plainly 

 ■different. 



Length 15-15 \ mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



Gen. EHABDOPHOLIS, Bum., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 290. 



Haplobrachium, Bohem. 



Mentum straight, but broadly rounded laterally towards the 

 apical part which is broadly and deeply emarginate, completely fused 

 with the ligular part, but with the junction still indicated by a 

 bi-sinuate suture, glabrous and sparsely punctate, and bi-impressed 

 in the basal part; labial palpi short, the basal joint very small, the 

 intermediate conical, the apical one broadly ovato-acuminate, longer 

 than the other two taken together ; maxillae short and very robust, 

 the upper lobe produced into a transverse, bluntly trifid erect tooth, 

 and the inner into a triangular one nearly on the same level as the 

 other, and briefly ciliate inwardly ; maxillary palpi long, the last 

 joint equal in length to the other three, a little thickened outwardly 

 towards the tip where it is very slightly curved ; mandibles very 

 massive, arcuate, hollowed inwardly, the outer edge sinuate, the 

 inner one straight ; clypeus about one-fourth of the length of the 

 frontal part and separated from it by an arcuate raised line, pro- 

 jecting beyond the narrow, very broadly emarginate vertical labrum, 

 plainly reflexed in the anterior part, where it is sinuate or nearly 

 straight in the male, broadly and .deeply emarginate in the female, 

 frontal part with one or three median longitudinal raised lines 

 reaching from base to apex ; eyes large, briefly divided in the 

 anterior part by a short canthus ; antennse 10- jointed, the three last 

 joints lamellate, nearly parallel and forming the club which is only very 

 slightly shorter in the male than all the other joints taken together, 

 but in the female the joints of the club are more ampliated and 

 shorter than the pedicel, the third, fourth, and fifth joints are of 

 nearly equal length, and the seventh shorter, compressed, and 

 slightly angular inwardly ; prothorax one-third longer than broad, 

 little convex, sub-parallel or only slightly ampliated laterally, very 



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